Kitchen Bytes: How to Prepare Asparagus Video

Watch as Jackie Plant demonstrates the right way to cook up the tasty green veggie

Hi. I'm Jackie Plant, Food Director for Woman's Day. Welcome to Kitchen Bytes, and today, I would like to show you how to trim, store, and roast asparagus. So the best way to store asparagus once you bring it home, once you've cleaned it, of course, is to place it in a container with water so that the cut ends are soaking in the water. This really-- It will give the life of this asparagus several more days. So with that, isn't that beautiful? It actually makes a centerpiece also. Think about that. You'll wanna store it in your refrigerator just like this. Just pop it in, and there you have it. So when it comes to asparagus and trimming it, you know, some people might think that you'd wanna use a knife. You know, you might wanna just put away the knife because this vegetable actually snaps where it should be trimmed. So you can just take them, bend them, and snap. Now the idea behind this is you don't want this end here. It's very woody, so it doesn't have a pleasant flavor to it. You're just gonna put it on the roasting pan. I love to use non-stick foil because it's so easy. There's no clean up whatsoever, and it's all about making it easy. So then I'm gonna drizzle some olive oil on here just a little bit. Okay, and a sprinkle of salt. That will do. In the sink it goes. Add some nice fair amount of pepper, and then you do need to get your hands dirty because then you're just gonna mix it all around, coat up the asparagus so the oil is everywhere. Look at that, ready to go. And then this will pop into the oven for about 15 minutes, 400-degree temperature. Okay. So you're ready to go. You've got your asparagus. You've trimmed it, you've stored it, you've roasted. You have to get it to the table but not without tasting it. Hi. I'm Jackie Plant, and thanks for watching Kitchen Bytes.

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